Born to Be (2019)
Born to Be
Soon after New York state passed a 2015 law that health insurance should cover transgender-related care and services, director Tania Cypriano and producer Michelle Hayashi began bringing their cameras behind the scenes at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, where this remarkable documentary captures the emotional and physical journey of surgical transitioning. Lending equal narrative weight to the experiences of the center’s groundbreaking surgeon Dr. Jess Ting and those of his diverse group of patients, BORN TO BE perfectly balances compassionate personal storytelling and fly-on-the-wall vérité. It’s a film of astonishing access—most importantly into the lives, joys, and fears of the people at its center.
Casting arrow_drop_down
Leiomy Maldonado
as Self
as Self
Garnet Rubio
as Self
as Self
Mahogany Phillips
as Self
as Self
Jess Ting
as Self
as Self
Jordan Rubenstein
as Self
as Self
Shawn Frederick Sr.
as Self
as Self
Cashmere
as Self
as Self
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Eliott Taylor
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Tania Cypriano
Director
Director
Michelle Koo Hayashi
Producer
Producer
Molly M. Fowler
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
J. Winkelried
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Jessica Kingdon
Co-Producer
Co-Producer
Mattison Thor Carter
Assistant Editor
Assistant Editor
Scott K. Foley
Editor
Editor
Troy Herion
Music
Music
Ilyse Wolfe Tretter
Clearances Coordinator
Clearances Coordinator
Jeffrey Johnson
Director of Photography
Director of Photography
Christopher White
Editor
Editor
Heidi Reinberg
Consulting Producer
Consulting Producer
Rachel Mills
Co-Producer
Co-Producer
Brad Wickham
Sound Mixer
Sound Mixer
Susan Norget
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
